Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

en ~ 0 w I> 0 ~ ~ W :I: ~ 0. I- :I: « 0. 0 I- > a:J 0 ·0 en Z >= I- ...J :I: > a:J 0. u, 0 0 00 00 I- :I: 0') 0. ....... "- 00 e-r l-; V ..0 8. V ...., 0.. Rich Oliver (97) won the AFM Formula Two race at Sears Point while practicing for the upcoming AMA National. Eric Kondo (1 BI took second. V UJ Steve Herman (93) won the 125cc A class at Sleepy Ho llow Motocross Park in Fredericksburg over Bobby Hayes (994) and Barry Carsten (651. U.S. daims round one at Baylands Speedway By Bill Spencer FREMONT. CA. AUG. 25 Eddie Ingels led the Yanks to the first-round victory in th e USA versus the World learn speed way cha llenge, The Americans faced the World wrecking crew. led by Ivan Ma uger, o n the one-seventh mile dirt ova l at Baylands Raceway Park and came o ut o n top with 59 points 10 th e Wor ld team's 49. Ingels was as near perfect as on e can get, winning all six of his rounds. Ingels and Doug Nicol were seeded one-two for th e USA and met Brit P hil Collins and Aussie Gl yn T aylor in the first round. Ingels won easily o ver Co llins and Nicol kept T aylor a t bay. Ph il Crum p led the second round and the form er Australian Nation al champ won easil y. but the USA kept close with Rock y Rob inson taking a fin e seco nd over Steve Martin. Ga ry Allan . the Kiwi under-21 ch amp. sho wed hi s style win n ing th e third round, but with Aussie John McN eil pulling up lam e. th e score after the fir st round was 10-8 for th e USA. Collins mad e hi s second round a pe rfect score wh ile Mart in tasted du st a nd th e sco re was tied. After th e in term ission, it was In gels a nd Nicol aga inst Co ll ins and T a ylor and the bo ys PUl o n an other fantastic show windi ng up USA-31. World-26. Cru mp kept the World guys' ho pes aliv e with a fin e win in ro u nd 13 bu t Pilloto cras hed out. Round 14 saw th e red Oy when Allan cras hed , for cin g McN eil down and Parsons over in a bi g pil eup. Par son s was do wn [or more than a m inute a nd. too k the obliga tory ambu la nce rid e to th e pits. He then came righ t back to fin ish a fine second behi nd Allan . T ay lor fin all y got a win in ro und 15 with Steve Martin's bike no t' running. With the sco re 40-38. th e USA guys needed ano ther cavalry cha rge and it was an swered by Kid Curry and Par sons first a nd second in round , 16 and. In gels a nd Nico l first and third in number 17 for a 45-39 co unt . T he fin al three rounds saw a pu sh with Co llins winning over Curry and Parsons, while Ingels mad e it perf ect with anot he r win over Crum p . Allan won th e fin al e but th e total s showed USA with 59 points a nd the World 49. . However. the U.S.' s lead wouldn 't ho ld up on th e second n ight of racin g. After the com pe titio n ended on the lon g Baylands track , the Wor ld team won the even t wit h 150 points to th e U.S. team 's 13S. Result s USA : 1. Eddie Inge ls (1 8 pts .l: 2. Rocky Robinson (10 1 ; 3. TIE: Doug Nicol lKid Curry (9); 5. Mik e Parson s (8); 6. Sieve M art in (51 . W ORLD: 1. Gary All an (16); 2. Phil Coll in s (151; 3. Phil Crump (13); 4 , Glyn TaVlor (4); 5 . John M cNei l (3); 6 . Anlo Pilotto 12). Herman doubles at Sleepy Hollow MX By Thom Veety FR ED ERI CKSBUR G . PA. SEPT. 5 Steve Herm an took th e overalls in bo th 125cc a nd 250cc Expe rt classes at Sleep y Hollo w MX Park 's ann ua l La bo r Day supercross format race. H erman took hi s C P R/ Boyesen /Sco u l Shoei/Dy no-Por tlGea r-spo nso red Kawasaki t'l the point in the first 250cc A mo to with Bo bby Ha yes second a nd DaK Boyesen th ird. foll owed by Eric Bo yer and Chuck POllS. Herman sel a fast pace an d th ey fin ished in that o rder. . The fea tut e had .H erman aga i'! ta ki ng the for the wi n in the l l -Iap mo to. Boyesen took second and Bobby Hayes recovered from a bad sta rt to take thi rd , ahead of Bob by Deli vuk a nd Boyer. Hayes took th e lead in tl}e first 125cc Expert mota with Barry Cars ten second. foll owed by Dennis Deck er , Herman and lac Cook. Carsten took th e lead wh en Hayes crashed hard o n the spectator tabl etop with Decker moving into second and Herman third. ahea d of Hayes and Bria n Eichelberger. The fina l was a ga in all Herman as he led Hayes through th e first tum a nd never looked back. taking ano the r l l -Iap win . Hayes held orr Carsten's charge from a midpack start to tak e second, with Decker taking fourth in front of Mark Pillion. In th e Se n io r Expert cl ass, th re e-ti me National Champion T ony DiStefan o and Bob Sorenson battled wh eel -to-wh eel and changed leads a t least a half dozen times. Tony D. was able 10 ta ke and hold th e lead for good wh en th ey got int o lap ped traffi c. Ronald Burkholder took th e po int in th e feature with Mike Bear second, followed by Don Co lli ns . Todd Steffy. Eri c Burkholder a nd Lou Kinney. Coll ins a nd Bear both got by Burkh older a t th e halfwa y point a nd Co lli ns held o n for th e win . Keith Roger s outbat tled Bob Sorenson and Micha el Bill y to wi n the O p en Expert q ua lifier. The feat ure ha d Robert Sim pson tak e th e lead with Bill y second in front of Ro gers. Sorenso n. Sa nd y Go rzelsky a nd Alb ert Perzan. .Wh en they came ou t of the · back sectio n for th e seco nd lim e, it was Sorenso n in front and tha t's the way it stayed. Ro gers held on for second in front of Go rzelsky, Simpson and Nick Kastis. • Res u lt s 50: 1. Gerard Trowbridge (Yaml ; 2. Ben Jon es (Sul i. 60: 1. Scott Rockwell (Kaw ); 2. Cecil W illiam s (Kaw ); 3. Devin Trexler IKaw). 7 -11 YTH: 1. Roben Humm er III (Honl: 2. Devin Trexler (Yaml ; 3 . Neil Woerner (Yam). 12 -13 YTH: 1. Damien PIons (Yaml; 2. Wayne ScolI(Honl; 3. Attuli Slo ul (Hon l. • 14 -15 YTH: 1. Mi chael Bear (Yam); 2. BillVSchlag (Kawl ; 3 . Jeff Yenll er (Yam). 125 B&C : 1. Donald Collins Jr. (Yam); 2. Michael Bear (Yam); 3. Ronald Burkholder (Kaw) . 125 A: 1. Sieve Herman IKaw) : 2. Bobby Haves (SUI); 3 . Barry Carsl en (Yaml; 4. Denn is Decker (Hon); 5 . Mark Pillion (Han) . 250 A: 1. Sieve Herman (K.w); 2. Dag Bovesen (Kaw); 3 . Bobby Haves Jr. (Suz); 4. Bobby Delivuk (Hon); 5. Er ic Bover (Suzl. 250 a&c: 1. Scott Hricay (Kawl; 2. Ronald Cook (Kaw) ; 3 . John LVons (Han). OPEN A : 1. Bob Sorenson (KTMI ; 2. Keilh Rogers (Hon); 3 . Sandy Gon:elsky (Kawl; 4 . Robert Simpson (Han ); 5 . Nick Kaslis (Honl . OPEN B: 1. Nil s Tribus (Hon); 2. Scott Siadovnik (KTM); 3 . uoe Hoffman Jr. (Han). 25 +: 1. Dave Wolfskill ,(Sull: 2. Calvin Leinbach (Honl; 3 . Keilh Rogers (Han). -, , ! SR A : 1. Tony O. (Suz); 2. Bob Sor enson (KTM); 3 . Jer e MillerlKTM). SR B: 1. Randy Haves lHo nl; 2. Joh n Yates (Hon); 3 . Roben Boyer (Honl . S /SR : 1. Lonnie Wi ll (Han ). By David Procida P ERRIS. CA. SEPT . ~ Steve Seq ueira bauled th e co mpetitio n and 110 degr ee tem pe ratures to lake do uble,mot a win s in th e 125cc Novice class today. In m o lO o ne. Ya m a ha pilo t Stephen Peterson wo n the dra g race goi ng int o th e first corner to tak e an early lead . As the pa ck screa med behind Peterso n thro ug h th e first turn . Sequeira. Ryan Joh nson and Edward J ay were bar to bar . Sequeira sq ueezed lhrough and wen t u p lh e horseshoe in seco nd with J ohnson . J ay. T iger Garcia and Mike Bull ey funneli ng dow n at th e lap of lhe corner. Sequeira q uickly closed th e gap o n Peterson , almosl jum pin g o ver th e grands ta nd '"" . h .. Resul ts VET NOV: 1. David Procida (5011 2. Tom' Coleman (Hon!: ; 3. Chr is Mod ic (Hon ). VET INT: 1. Richa rd Dick (Kawl ; 2. Ken Franci s (Yaml; 3 . Mark Granberg (Hon). VETEX: 1. Greg Berg (Kaw ); 2. Kirt Goldi e (Han ); 3 . Kinney Jones (Hon ). MINI BEG: 1. Larry Linkog le IKaw). MINI INT: 1. Todd McMaster (Hon). MINI NOV: 1. Trav is Fleming (Hon); 2. Rim Olson (Yam ); 3. Randy Bett en (Kaw) . 125 BEG: 1. Jeff Neubauer (Hon); 2. RobenWeslon (Yam); . 3. Todd Smilh (Yam). 250 BEG; 1. M yron Hemley (Hon); 2. Robert Papp (Yam). 125 NOV: 1. Sieve Sequeira (Han); 2. Tiger Garc ia (Hon); 3 . M ike Bullev (Yam). 250 NOV: 1. Will Dickson (Yam); 2. Brian Thienes (Sul); 3. Jack Ptnnn (Hon). OPEN NOV: 1. Bria n Dodd (Hon); 2. Cal M yer s (Kaw) . 1251NT: 1. B.J. Millspaugh IKaw ); 2. Randy Da nyl o (Kaw). OPEN INT: 1. Dave Sarian (Yam); 2. Buddy M organ (Hon); 3 . David Freest (Kaw) . 125 PRO: 1. Randy M oody (Ho n); 2. Jeff Black (Yam). 250 PRO: 1. Craig Davis (Yam); 2. Steve Shi ppy (Hon); 3. Mike Hooker (Yam). . OPEN PRO: 1. W illv M usgra ve (ATKI; 2. Greg Zitterkopf (ATK); 3 . Brian Vargus (Kaw ). Oliver, Gray hot at Sears Point RR By Vincent Sttrykers Sequeira soars to SMXwin ~ ; .-L Sequeira drove under Peterson taking the lead. Behind the lead pair, a dice was waged by J ohnson and Garcia. The battle carried them to the rear fender of Peterson with Johnson powering his . way by on the straightaway. Pet erson was going to have no part of this and stuffed Johnson hard in the 180 degree switchback. Sequeira was opening a secure lea d as Johnson once again got by Peterson, only to get stuffed in the very same comer as th e previous lap. There was an even larger gap between Sequeira and the seco nd place rider as Peterson got out of shape and went down hard coming off a jump. J ohnson was now being closed in on by J ay; who had been on the gas the entire moto. Also moving up was Bulley , who wa s following Jay's Suz uki . As th e moto wound down, the heat seemed to a ffect Johnson as he dropped off the pace and was passed by both J ay and Bulley, At th e checkered, Seq ueira took first with Jay, Bulley, Garcia and Peterson making th e top five slo ts. In moto two , Peterson had the hammer down and o nce aga in took th e holeshot, Sequeira made his move for th e lead early and was in th e lead befor e th e completion of lap o ne. Running clos e behind Peterson, Bul1ey was ap plyi ng heavy doses o f pressure along wi th Garcia . G arcia kept the throttle on longer dow n th e ma in stra ight to pa ss Bulley and the n close o n Peterson . Peterson felt th e heat from G arcia 's H onda a nd pi cked up th e pa ce. For the next cou ple of la ps. th e two rid ers pushed and -sho ved in the co rners with Gar cia eventua lly getting th e ur per han d. Sequeira scored his seco nd win o the da y taking th e overa ll as well .. Garcia 's 4-2 tall y cap tu red him second overa ll. edging o ut Bu llev's .'1 -3. Rounding o ut th e top five o vera ll po sitions wer e ' Ed wa rd J a y a n d Peterson . h~,. •..• . SONO MA, CA, SEPT . I I R ich Oliver and Scott Gray showed why th ey have become ' road racing sta lwa rt s with impressive perfonnan ces at th e latest AFM co m pe titio n at Sears Point. In the Formula T wo race O liver started in th e th ird row but had overta ken second place fin isher Eri c Kondo by tur n four o n th e fir sl lap. However. Kondo will get first plac e points because, O liv er , a . loc al ri der, was o n ly pra cticing [or hi s u pco ming October AMA Natio na l me et a l Sea rs Po int. O li ver is cu rren tJy third in the Castro l 250.G ra nd Pr ix Ser ies. Oliver sto le the show again in th e For m ul a On·e race, blis teri ng th e 2.5 mi le track with lap times j u st under o ne-mi n ute a nd 46 seconds. O nce as-ain, however, O liver and fell o w Yamah a nder T ho mas Stevens, were practicing fo r (he O cto ber race. 'T heref? re, f .... h " " .. A •••·. '" t;'T·' • . , . " • •. " ·""",,,11 A J;"' .. n ..... . ..... . ., f leader, strengthened his posruon in the standings with a third place finish. In the 750cc Superstreet competition (mi nus points leader Je ff Hagan, who suffered a broken leg at Riverside) Scott Gray fro m a fourth row gri d position on a Yama ha loaned to him by AFM superstar P hil Kress, grabbed the lead before the second lap . Gray, currently ranked fourth in th e Superbike competition, increased his lead on every lap before taking th e checkered Oag for the wm. Jim Jepsen, seco nd in points going into the race . finished seco nd, narrowing the 47 point difference between himself and Hagan. In the final race of the day, the 750cc Prod uct ion bik es. Gray this time o n his Suzuki starting (rom the second TOW, caught second place finisher Jim Jepsen by the third lap. J epsen came into the race in third p lace In the 750cc Prod uctio n standings, 24 points behind the leader Hagan. Results T-6 50 : 1. Frank Olin Oau nell (Kaw ); 2. Jo hn Kirk (Hon); 3 . Jon•• EkJund (!(aw). "4 50 S/STK: 1. Kirk Hoeppner {Kawl; 2. Stephe n Rodden (Yam); 3 . M ark Schubert (Yam). T-750: 1. Aar on Rueg er (Duc); 2 . Eric Swonstigure (Nor); 3 . Pau l Rasm ussen (Due) . F-4 : 1. Hank Raney (Ka w); 2. Eron Flory (Kawl ; 3 . Criss Sha nnon (Hon). F-4() : 1. Denny Dohery (Yam); 2 . Gor don Seim (Duc); 3 . Thomas Silman (Yam). . 250 PROD: 1. Franc is Mazur (Kaw l; 2. M ichael Earnst (Kaw ); 3. Craig Harris IKa w). OPEN PROD: 1. Scott Cavness (SUI): 2. Kenneth Louket is (SUl ~ 3. Jo hn Hill (SUI). F·l : 1. Anhur Chambers (Due); 2. Elmer Riddle (Yam); r.~ ralr';:~~I~'~on~ 3. 2. Vincent M eyer (Hon): 3. Kurt M und (Hon l. 450 PROD: 1. Darrell Parker (Yam); 2. Darrell Clinger man (Yam); 3. Hugh M arch (Yaml . F-2: 1. Eric Kondo (Yaml; 2. Thoma s Slevens (Yam): 3. Slephen Wickland (RIXI. 750 51ST: 1. Scott Grav (Yam); 2. Jim Jepsen (Suz); 3. Bob Vangrin (Suz). • SDCAR: 1. Pet er Essaf (Kaw); 2. Peter Breede (Yam); 3. Bernie Thomas (Kaw) . OPEN GP: 1. Dennv Doherty .(Yaml ; 2. Pel er Koci (SUI); 3. Rosslv n We lls (Suzl . 250 5 1ST: 1. Kirk Hoeppn er (Kaw); 2. Jeff Hoeppner (Kaw l; 3 . Francis Malur (Kaw l. 600 PROD: 1. Peter Wensloff; 2. Waller Nitto (Hon); 3. J effrev McCabe (Hon). 600 5 1ST: 1. Mark McDaniel (Hon); 2. John Anderton Fryer (Yam); 3 . David Deveau {Hon). 750 PROD: 1. Scott Grav (SUI); 2. Jim Jepsen (SUI);: 3. Sean Cavness (SUI). OPEN 5 1 ST: 1. Kenn el h Loukelis (Sut); 2. Phil Kr... (Yaml ; 3 . Denny Doherty (Yam). VINT: 1. Eric;: Swortsfigure (Bul) ; 2. Tim Tingev (Hon); 3. Char les Sexto n (Bul). F-l : 1. John A nderson Fryer (Yam); 2. Michael Braxton {Sull; 3. Peter Carroll (SUI). • Bradshaw blasts at Camp Coker MX By Kemp Hauser SOCIETY H ILL, sc, SEPT. 4 The first round of the National Association Motorsports Enterprises Fall Nationals got underway with a bang a t the Camp Coker MX as Damon Bradshaw ra n away with all four mo tes -of the 125 and 250cc Pro classes and Hank Moree J r. swept th e 125 an d 250cc Amateur classes . Bradshaw took the lead in the first 125cc Pro moto and walked aw ay with it . With th e 125cc Pro and Amateur classes being run IOgether. (but scored separalely), th e racing was in tense. .Mor ee went down in the first turn as mow one go t underway with th e entire field sh ooting by. The Pr o clas s order was th en Brad shaw. with Jim Ch ester hot on his heels . follo wed by Jim Neese. The front runners of th e Am ateur cla ss co ns isted of Ru sty Col em an . Lee Wa lston a nd Jef f Sh u ler. By th e halfway poin t, Bradshaw ha d a com for table lead o n Ch ester . wh o had reco vered nicel y fro m an early-mo lO fall and Ama leu r class leader Moree, wh o had bl azed . lo th e lead a fter hi s ficst· tu rn cra sh. I As the field fo ug h t for pos itio ns throughout the mo ta, the Pro cla ss fi ni sh came down to Brad shaw ahead of Ches ter and Neese, with Keith Watson edg ing o u t La rr y Andrews for fou rth. Moree came in the mota wi n ne r of the Amat eu r class with Co lema n . Wal ston , Ch ad Lugh and Mike Manin chas ing him to .h . . I ~ n .. " '. ~.,1 ... .. .. , h .. , ,, " f~,;"

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